Tennessee Supreme Court June 9, 1950 (Taylor v. Aulton)

Mb. Justice Tomlinson

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Sally J. Taylor, a widow, died intestate in 1948 the owner of a small farm. She never had any children, but Balph Franklin Taylor, petitioner here, and complainant in the Chancery Court, insists that he is the owner of this farm by reason of certain adoption proceedings had in the County Court of Knox County in 1927, or by reason of an